Resin Terrain Pieces

I don't know if many people use much premade Resin Terrain, but Ainsty Castings are doing some stonking new accessories atm (they also do some gorgeous resin Ships and Dockyard terrain as well).

Got some new bits through today, pots and pans, ornate crates and treasure chests, and some cracking tables and chairs.

Ainsty Castings

 

Fantastic!

Welcome to Port Royal Mister Smith . . . . .

My hands were pretty achy and stiff last night, so I thought I would tackle some terrain rather than attempting to paint as if I am wearing boxing gloves.

This is my first Freebooters Fate building (it's not the first terrain I've even built, just the first in a LOOOOONG time).

The first building I've started is a central tall (ish) building - ut will have interiors (though the ground floor is just "plaster" atm), and an upstairs for storage (various crates, boxes etc) and a balcony for the Harbour Master (or one of his minions) to survey whats going on in the area.

The roof won't have a Chimney (its an Office in warmer climes, so no real need for heating) - I'm thinking a Telescope on the Balcony might be cool idea.

It's looking "okay" so far, still loads to do though.

Free to Sail the Seas Beyond the Edges of the Map . . . . .

One of the things I like about Freebooter's Fate, is that it has more of a Fantasy slant than most Pirate games.

So when it come's to Gaming environments, "The World Is Your Oyster" so to speak.

The Various pictures of actual Freebooter's Fate Demo Tables I have seen show this in spades, and that's without what the wonderfully talented people we have involved in our Hobby are capable of coming up with.

Here we have what I would imagine would be a standard sort of layout, a beach, a shipwreck, and some Pal Trees - gorgeous and immediately recognizable.

 

This smaller table is simply centered around a building, a Travelers Inn I think - a simple Idea nicely done IMHO.

Here we have a much more complicated idea, loads of small Istlets linked by walkways and platforms.

As you can see from just the three Salute tables - the sky is quite literally the limit when it comes to Gaming Tables for Freebooter's Fate.

This table is more sedate, but nice nevertheless - and shows the outskirts of a Village, "Smugglers Ahoy" perhaps.

Whilst not specifically intended for Freebooter's Fate, this small coastal town table is simply gorgeous.

Back to Freebooter's Fate Tables now, with this Temple layout - obviously inspired by the Amazon Crew and the Deep Jungle Book!

All these examples (and more, just do a search through Google Images) show the almost limitless Possibilities for your games of Freebooter's Fate.

I just hope my small table does the game justice when I finally get around to it!

Gaming Tables

I was going to finish some paitning on the Pirate Queen, and start my Review of the new Freebooters Fate Equipment Cards - but feeling particularly crappy and unwell, instead I watched a couple of Episodes of Lost Girl with the Mrs and did some sketches of a "Micro-Gaming Table" I've had in mind for Freebooters Fate.

The idea is to create a small Desert Island, with a ship-wreck (I have a really nice Aquarium ornament Linda got for me, just for this purpose) some minor Ruins, Palm Trees etc.

Kinda like this Freebooters Fate Demo-Table -

But with water on all sides, so its more like this -

OK, I know - it's a Warhammer Board! But you get the idea. Like an ACTUAL Desert Island - Like  Palominito in the Caribbean (where they shot some scenes for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides).

Of course, if funds and space (space actually being slightly more restrictive for me than funds) were no problem - I think I would actually go for something MUCH grander, something like this -

Of course, I'm always thinking to the future - so something like that WILL be on the cards someday. Even if I have to scratch build everything and make it modular for storage!